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Example 25-226
Aim goin na got mai motika.
Aim
1sg
.be
go-in
go-
prog
na
now
got
com
/
ins
mai
1sg
.
poss
motika.
car
I’m going now with my car.
Comment:
Variety: Spoken Victoria River, Older Generation. The example illustrates the second progressive construction and the comitative/instrumental preposition
got(a).
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fieldwork Schultze-Berndt
Language:
Kriol
by
Eva Schultze-Berndt
and
Denise Angelo
cite
Datapoints:
Tightness of the link between the progressive marker and the verb: Affix
Instrumental expressions: Adposition
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